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HowStuffWorks (www.HowStuffWorks.com), the award-winning Web site known for its ability to explain the world around us in a way anyone can understand, breaks down the basics of time in a special guide called How Time Works. This guide unravels the mysteries of time and answers questions such as:

"How Time Works" also tests your own knowledge of the basics of time. Did you know the earth is 4.5 billion years old, or that humans have existed for only 50,000 years, and that only 5,000 of those years have been recorded? Or did you know that you can live 40 days without food, or that "in a blink of an eye" is really 1 decisecond?

Marshal Brain, the founder of HowStuffWorks, and the other "know-it-alls" at HSW can answer why your sleep schedule changes twice a year and anything else you want to know about daylight-saving time. Marshall has made several national media appearances including on Oprah, Fox News Channel and CNN.

HowStuffWorks (www.howstuffworks.com) is the leading source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. It has won multiple Webby awards, was among Time Magazine's "25 Web Sites We Can't Live Without" in 2006 and 2007, and was among PC Magazine's "Top 100 Web Sites" four times including in 2007. HowStuffWorks is also creating a fully multimedia version of an encyclopedia, with content and video that will answer virtually any question an Internet user might have. In December 2007, HowStuffworks joined with Discovery Communications as part of Discovery's digital media strategy, and a HowStuffWorks program on the Discovery Channel is currently in the works. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, HowStuffWorks was a subsidiary of The Convex Group, a media and technology company, from 2003 to 2007.